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Follow on Google News | Zapproved Event Building Great Products from Startup to Massive Scale with Peter van HardenbergNovember 10 event gives an inside look at what it takes to build great products while massively scaling a company
By: Zapproved, Inc. Event Description Building great products takes a lot of work, but hard work isn't enough on its own. No matter what you're building, you're going to need a plan for how you'll get there. In this talk, we'll talk about the Heroku Postgres team's working habits as it scaled a 24x7 high-availability product while maintaining close contact with its users over a long period. We'll focus on the specific and practical techniques the team used to plan, organize, and execute its work, and talk about the principles behind them. After a tour of some of these techniques, Heroku Postgres founding member Peter van Hardenberg will answer your questions about scaling from startup to acquisition and massive scale. About Peter van Hardenberg Peter van Hardenberg was an early team member at Heroku and co-founded Heroku's Department of Data, the team behind Heroku Postgres. Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com in December 2010 for $212M less than four years after founding. Prior to joining Heroku, he worked as an Arctic oceanographer, game developer, and Shakespearean scholar. He lives in San Francisco and, among other things, advises high-growth software companies like Zapproved and Auth0. Who should attend Startup founders, engineers, and product managers. Startup founders, engineers, and product managers. Event Date: November 10, 2016 Time: 6 p.m. Place: Zapproved, 1414 NW Northrup, Suite 700, Portland, OR 97209 Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/ Food: Beverages and pizza provided. About Zapproved Inc. Founded in 2008 in Portland, Ore., Zapproved Inc. is a pioneer in developing cloud‐based software for corporate legal departments. The Z‐Discovery Platform returns power to in‐house corporate legal teams and helps them navigate electronic discovery with minimal risk and cost, and it sets new standards for scalability and intuitive design. The company's flagship product, Legal Hold Pro, is widely adopted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations and has earned recognition as the Best E‐Discovery Legal Hold Product at the 2015 and 2016 Legaltech News Innovation Awards, Best of the National Law Journal 2014 - 2016. Zapproved was recognized in the 2014 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. and was named as a "vendor to watch" in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for E‐Discovery. Zapproved is SOC2 ® Type 2 certified validating by a third party that Zapproved's systems have controls in place to protect against unauthorized access (both physical and logical). End
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